Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 14
Although she questioned and cross-questioned Cairide’, her story-teller, she could discover nothing about a lady who had been known as the Black Duck.
Who acts: lament · What happens: question, discover, know · To what, where: cross-questioned Cairide, nothing, lady
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lament), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 3 questioned | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 questioned | nsubj |
| 3 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 discover | advcl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Cairide | cc |
| 5 | cross-questioned | cross-questioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Cairide | amod |
| 6 | Cairide | Cairide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 questioned | obj |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cairide | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 teller | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 teller | nmod:poss |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 teller | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 story | punct |
| 12 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Cairide | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 questioned | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 discover | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 discover | aux |
| 16 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 discover | obj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 lady | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lady | det |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nothing | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 known | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 known | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 known | aux:pass |
| 24 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 lady | acl:relcl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 Duck | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Duck | det |
| 27 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Duck | compound |
| 28 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 known | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 discover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | past | lament | cross-questioned Cairide | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cairide=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | discover | could | lament | nothing | about a lady | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 3 | know | past · perfect · passive | a lady | as the Black Duck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as duck=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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